'A visceral, harrowing, and revelatory vision of life, death, and love in a time of pandemic. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and deeply moving story of love and loss. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. The Pull of The Stars by Emma Donoghue Little, Brown and Company 304p, 28 It is not unlike the birthday revelation Fitzgerald’s own narrator Nick Carraway has, as youth yields to a more. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are quarantined together. 'Moving, gripping and dazzlingly written' – Stylistĭublin, 1918. The Pull of the Stars is set during three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of Room.
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